Author of the Khumalo Series!
Who is ZIG ZAG CLAYBOURNE??? OF COURSE YOU ALREADY KNOW!
But if you don’t, I’ll tell you again, with GREAT GLEE AND WHIMSY AND HUMOR AND WISDOM AND AWE.
Oh, wait. I’m just describing Zig Zag’s writing now!!!
And THIS MAN? ZIG ZAG? He’s gonna be our next guest star on FICTION: IMPOSSIBLE. Stream his glory live—Monday night, December 22nd—at 7 PM EASTERN! On my Twitch channel: twitch.tv/csecooney
And now for the official writ:
Named by Book Riot as one of the “6 Black Indie Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers You Should Be Reading,” Zig Zag Claybourne is the author of the newly released fantasy Amnandi Sails and its prequel Breath, Warmth, and Dream. Other novels include The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan, Afro Puffs Are the Antennae of the Universe, and By All Our Violent Guides. His stories and essays have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apex, Realm (formerly Serial Box), Galaxy’s Edge, Strange Horizons, The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, and numerous anthologies. Claybourne is a frequent speaker at libraries, conventions, and learning institutions. zzclaybourne.com
I’m just saying, I love this guy.
I love him as a human, as a leader/teacher/poet/master of the SFF community, and as an artist. Even his Facebook posts are art. Even his Bsky posts. He’s just like that. He just walks the Earth like one of those giants you read about other people standing on the shoulders of.
Oh, and?
Sometimes I dress up like his books:
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Yours Truly,
C. S. E. Cooney
C.S.E. Cooney 